The stock market's sudden downward pattern does not bode well for the rest of 2010, according an analysis of market history.
The stock market jumped on the first trading day of the year following reports of stronger manufacturing activity around the world as well as a rise in oil prices.
Stocks appear headed for a higher opening on the first day of trading in the new year following the lead of overseas markets. Stock futures are up.
Market forces work everywhere — even, it would seem, on the high seas. According to published reports, Somali pirates have created a stock exchange to manage their ill-gotten gains.
U.S. clients with more than 1 million Swiss Francs in offshore accounts with UBS could be ratted out.
Here are some solutions for 2010 that we hope our politicians, regulators and financial wizards have made.
As world leaders at the Copenhagen summit moved to chart a global strategy on climate change, the U.S. Congress was readying itself to take up cap-and-trade legislation to reduce carbon emissions here at home.
The latest version of the tax credit for first-time homebuyers has two new features that may make the credit more widely available, which means more clients with Roth conversion income may be affected.
Broker-dealers that hold client assets for registered investment advisers are pointing their marketing and technology arrows at practice management.
If there is one word to describe Donald Robert Pitti, the financial planning pioneer who died Dec. 18 at the age of 80, it would be “enthusiasm.”
An investment adviser has been charged with defrauding investors in a scheme that used former National Football League players to promote offerings in an insurance company.
China's lavish bank lending spurred a recovery but also pumped up markets as speculators scooped up stocks and property and even dabbled in garlic, dried chilli peppers and luxury Pu'er tea.
A judge in Massachusetts throws the book at an adviser who swindled the heirs of gilded-age industrialist Frederick Ayer, Jr.
Advisers have a real opportunity to serve the needs of clients who are saving for retirement — especially women.
Stocks are falling in midday trading as a stronger dollar tugs on commodities prices.
Stock futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street Wednesday as a stronger dollar tugged on commodities prices.
A Boston-based investment firm has agreed to pay $1.3 million in restitution to Montana investors for a Ponzi scheme run by an independent broker in Kalispell.
Three ex-employees of Bernie Madoff -- including operations chief Daniel Bonventre (above) -- say they played no part in the fraudster's $65 billion scheme
Institutional investors are investing in timberland, trying to fill new inflation-hedging allocations.
